Session

DescriptionOrganizer(s): Andrey Alekseenko and Szilárd Páll (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

HPC and data-intensive computing now stand as the fourth pillar of science. However, as scientific discovery increasingly relies on complex, heterogeneous architectures, primarily GPUs, proprietary programming models and vendor lock-in restrict portability and obscure the transparency essential for reproducible and trustworthy science. SYCL is a vendor-agnostic, C++-based standard for heterogeneous computing with several mature implementations for a wide range of hardware accelerators, offering a promising path towards portable and reproducible high-performance computing. As an open standard, it promotes active, bidirectional interaction among all involved parties: hardware vendors, compiler and runtime developers, standards committees, and application developers. This minisymposium fosters the dialogue between scientific application developers and SYCL implementers, sharing experiences on using SYCL as a collaborative, open-software ecosystem for performance-portable accelerated computing. The aim of this minisymposium is to contribute to the wider adoption of open standards across the scientific computing community.